An Idea For Soraka

Soraka's whole thing is healing now. That's basically it. Does she have other tools? Yes. Do they matter as much as her healing? No. She does very little else other than an occasional slow and a silence and that's because so much of her power comes from her constant, very powerful heals. The thing about this is that these heals can feel oppressive when they are too strong and since that's what her whole kit revolves around the rest of her kit suffers. In order to add power to the rest of her kit, you'd have to remove some of her reliability from healing.

So here's my sentiment about how to deal with one of her healing problems: burst healing. Soraka can currently out-heal a lot of damage done to a champion due to the instant and constant effect of her healing. My suggestion is to remove a portion of the instant heal and convert it into a heal-over-time.

The change would make it so that say, 75 health is given instantly and then the rest of the healing effect would take place over the next few seconds. You still get the effect of some burst heals but you wouldn't simply be able to instantly out heal another champions damage with the press of a button.

You may ask what happens if I heal the target multiple times over? Well you'd get the same impact from the initial heal but the heal over time effect would simply refresh the timer.

>So lets say you heal a target for 75 health and another 100 health will be healed over 4 seconds. >You heal again 2 seconds later. >Your first heal initially healed for 75 health and another 50 health from the over time heal. >The second heal would heal for another 75 health immediately and refresh the 4 seconds on the over-time heal. This means you'd get another 100 health back over 4 seconds but you'd ultimately lose 50 health from the first over-time effect by overriding the effect with the second spell cast.

Remember, the main goal of this would be to take away some reliability and create more decision-making to her heals. After this change Soraka could receive buffs to the rest of her kit and allow for a more interesting character and a less oppressive healer.

Please give your thoughts or questions below. If you don't like it please tell me why below as well. Thank you.